be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … mothers are much more likely to repeat one or more grades than other children, and within-household estimates of this … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …

almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …

leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference … parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test … extended parental leave mandate on standardized test scores at age 15, but that the subgroup of boys of highly educated mothers …